Fish and Chips, Everyone Has a Favourite Way

How do you take yours? For what might seem a simple dish at first glance, the serving of fish and chips is a personal choice and everyone has their favourite.

Classic: Salt on the chips, vinegar on the fish.

Sandwich: With a bread roll/bap/bun*, fish and some chips are used to make a sandwich, in addition to ketchup. (*the precise naming of your bread product is not a discussion we are getting into!)

Green Supreme: With mushy peas, either on the side or, as a dip.

Curry Tang Fantastic: The curry sauce, the ‘chip shop’ curry sauce of course, generously poured over everything – yes, everything.

Extra Messy: With scraps, ask for scraps in some parts of the country and you’ll either get funny looks or something three days old that chews like old cardboard, do it here and you get a fresh crunchy batter treat that adds texture to your chips or peas.

The Purist: Nothing, no peas, no salt, no vinegar, no sauce: just Fish and Chips

There is every chance you think all of those are wrong, or a waste of a good bit of haddock. You might think we have missed the obvious perfect way to have this classic dish. That is just a part of why, as a nation, we love fish and chips so much.

However even if that is the case, you are almost certainly feeling an unexpected hunger, thinking about your next fish and chips; so make it some delicious Harrogate District fish and chips, see below for when and where you can make that happen!